2. Come up with new businesses all the time.

Entrepreneurs are always thinking about great ideas. You might say they’re starting hundreds of businesses every day. The important thing is to stay creative and to stay innovative. They may launch new ideas or extract pieces from various concepts they have.

I’d say the biggest advantage of this is that you’re keeping your creative faculties sharp.

3. Investing in the future of your company.

Another trait of successful people is they’re investing in the future. Think about those entrepreneurs who buy a block of seemingly random domain names for no apparent reason. That’s investing in the future because they’ve got an idea that may or may not come to fruition in the future.

Investing in the future could be anything. It could be buying a stock or copyrighting an idea that isn’t quite ready to mature yet.

Of course, not every investment in the future is going to be a winner, but what I’ve learned in business is that you only really need that one breakthrough and you’re set for life.

4. Getting up early

Have you ever noticed that it’s common for successful businesspeople to enjoy starting the day early and working all the way through until the dead of night? I do the same thing. It’s not because I love early mornings, it’s because I’m so excited to start the day that I couldn’t possibly spend all my time sleeping. These people love what they do and they want to start the day.

Does it mean that getting up early is the answer?

No, but it reveals something else that all businesspeople are: passionate. They love what they do so much. Sometimes that’s all that keeps you going through the hard times.

What makes a person successful? There are a lot of things that can make someone successful. These four traits I consider to be the most important as they’re the high-level traits that provide the foundations for success. Great businesspeople come in all industries, but they have these traits in common.

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